In this
quasi-mystical, avant-garde Western, a Cleveland accountant named William Blake spends all
his money and takes a train to the frontier town of Machine, where he is denied his
expected job. After dating with charming Thel he becomes a fugitive accused of a double
murder. A wandering Native American named Nobody, who became a fan of the man's poet
namesake while in England, aides him in his flight from bounty hunters.